The combined army of men and kobolds march on against the shores where live the lizardmen.

They attack at night, by surprise!

The lizardmen suffer a few losses right away, but soon they start mustering their troops.

More and more lizardmen come out of their huts and their villages and from the sea.

As the fight drags on, it becomes increasingly clear that the lizardmen are far superior.

They are bigger, they have better reflexes, they are much stronger, they even have better weapons somehow.

The surprise attack quickly turns into a massacre of the forces sent in. Even your reinforcements are just chewed by the lizardmen.

Your martial arts are powerful, but against opponents with a very different physiology, most of what you know about the body and ways to disable the opponents don't directly apply. The lizardmen have different centers of mass and they can fight from the ground, with claws from whichever hand or leg, with their tails and by biting. It is hard to choke them, even harder to hold them in any kind of disadvantageous position. Your black belts are at a loss with how ineffective are the techniques they spent a lifetime honing!

Defeat is unavoidable.

Both yours and the kobold's army suffer massive casualties. You retreat to your homes, defeated.

But the lizardmen pursue you! Angered, the wanted to know who been attacking them.

There are many skirmishes against them, but they are relentless.

They turned the tables and brought the war into your turf!

They send a delegation to our lands, to discuss the terms of our surrender.

"You are to provide us with a large offering of food every year, surrender all your gold to us. If you fail to do so, we will slaughter your people! You will also provide us with workers for our mines!"

Do you agree with the surrender terms or do you keep fighting?
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